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Car Rental Los Angeles and the Sunset Strip

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Let Deluxe Rent A Car los angeles take you to the glamorous Sunset Strip that is part of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. This section of the city begins just west of Fairfax and runs west to Beverly Hills city limits at Doheny Drive.

Directions to Sunset Strip

From Hollywood (101) Freeway, take the Sunset Boulevard exit, go west on Sunset Boulevard about three miles to Crescent Heights. From Rodeo Drive, take Rodeo Drive North to Sunset Boulevard, turn right (east) on Sunset.

Deluxe Rent A Car los angeles asks if you knew there was a movie called Sunset Strip? This film was produced in 2000. The movie was set in 1972. A group of young people is looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives.

Sunset Boulevard is famous, but the most known portion of the boulevard is the mile and a half stretch of Sunset between Hollywood and Beverly Hills that has been dubbed "The Sunset Strip." Running between Crescent Heights Boulevard (on the east) and Doheny Drive (on the west), the Sunset Strip features rock clubs, restaurants, boutiques, and Hollywood nightspots.

In the evening, cruise down the Strip in your Deluxe Rent A Car los angeles rental witness mammoth, hand-made billboards. These bright advertisements were made to catch the Hollywood producers and dealmakers’ eye as they commuted to and from their Beverly Hills homes to their workplace in Hollywood.

Deluxe Rent A Car los angeles ask if you know the term that refers to the billboards designed to puff stars egos? These billboards were referred to as “Vanity Boards.” One luxury car company actually placed $30,000 in cash on their billboard – under the watchful eye of a security guard.

Sights along Sunset Strip

Heading from the west from the east end on the two-mile strip, Deluxe Rent A Car los angeles says to keep an eye out for the following landmarks:

• The sidewalk café featured in the final scene of Woody Allen's "Annie Hall" was "The Source" restaurant," a vegetarian bistro located at 8301 Sunset (at Sweetzer Avenue). The restaurant is now under new ownership and has a new name – ‘The Cajun Bistro.’ The sidewalk dining area has been semi-enclosed since the movie was shot there.
• In a large yellow train car on the north side of Sunset (8351 Sunset Blvd.), you’ll find "Carney's." This is a novel restaurant that calls itself as "the little train on the right side of the tracks." Actor Andrew McCarthy ("Mannequin") and Cuba Gooding Jr. frequent the restaurant. For more information, check their website http://carneytrain.com
• One of Hollywood’s best examples of Art Deco design can be found on the south side of the Strip, at 8358 Sunset, in the form of the historic St. James's Club & Hotel. This building that stands 13-stories tall is the Strip's first high-rise. Now called The Argyle, it was originally the Sunset Towers hotel, and virtually every star in Hollywood stayed here at one time or another. Famous guests include: Howard Hughes, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe and John Wayne. The private club, hotel and restaurant had stellar members that included Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor, and David Bowie. It was also the locale for memorable poolside scenes from the movie 1992 "The Player."

Deluxe Rent A Car los angeles note that the Hollywood glamour of the 1930s and 1940s introduced the world to glittery movie starlets and their well dressed men arriving in limousines. Today, the glamour may have faded, but the excitement remains in the nightclub scene and hotels. The Marmont Hotel is the locale has been made infamous for Jim Morrison’s antics and John Belushi’s death by overdose.